Lee Derbyshire - News

01 Oct 2006A new version (v6.80) of OWA-PDA and OWA-WAP was released today. Please see the history pages for details of new features and fixes.

20 Sep 2006Added an article describing how to remove the mailto: part of an email address when using OWA as the default mailto: client in Internet Explorer.

10 Aug 2006Have done some more testing with Exchange 2007 Beta 2. Managed to get the OWA Time Zone by scraping the source for the OWA Options page. I will need to find a better way of doing it in future, but as of yet, there is no other option. I can now create Replies, etc., by using CDO.Message objects, but again, I hope to be able to use Web Services for this when E2007 is finally released. I'm already getting a few enquiries about OWA-PDA and E2007, as people are learning that OMA is going to be dropped.

28 Jul 2006A new version (v6.60) of OWA-PDA and OWA-WAP was released today. Please see the history pages for details of new features and fixes.

02 Jul 2006I was awarded the Microsoft MVP award (Windows Server System - Exchange Server) again. The MVP award is valid for one year. Very happy. You can learn more about the MS MVP program here: https://mvp.microsoft.com/.

02 Apr 2006OWA For PDA and WAP have now been tested with the first Exchange 12 Beta. Luckily, nearly everything seems to work the same as in Exchange 2000 and 2003. There are a couple of things that don't work, though. Firstly, I can no longer get the OWA Time Zone as a WebDAV property on the mailbox, and secondly, I can no longer generate a Forward or Reply message by using OWA URL parameters like ?cmd=reply. MS say that I will need to use Web Services for things like this in future, although there is next to nothing abouth this in the (rather scant) E12 SDK documentation. I'll just have to wait and see what happens. I want these to work with E12 as soon as it comes out.